All the World’s a Stage: The Art of Roleplaying
This week, David returns (again) to All the World’s a Stage as a newly married man, feeling particularly happy and joyful, and overflowing with enthusiasm for just about everything he loves in life. The relationship between rolelplaying and real life is a multifaceted one. If you have read this column before, you’ve probably seen some mention of roleplaying as a creative art form, but for some readers, it might be a bit difficult to imagine roleplaying as an art. After all, some might say, it’s just a bunch of people sitting around, pretending their characters are real people, having real problems and real stories, all in spite of a game environment in which one’s character can’t actually affect the world in any way that matters. Problems of continuity, such as instanced dungeons in which many people can slay the same monster at the same time over and over again, make some people feel as though there’s no story value to the game at all, and that anything roleplayers do is a waste of their time. The trick for roleplayers is to think of roleplaying as something
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